Rob Smedfjeld commented on last
week’s Board meeting, disturbed by comments made by Trustee Weed alleging that
the College deliberately omitted information about student services building from
the bond to sway voters, and that there was internal political maneuvering on
campus.

Faculty urged to attend the October
11 Board Meeting.

Two new articles from Tri-City
Voice: an open letter from the Board of Trustees and an Editorial.

Alan suggested thanking Nick Nardolillo
for his managing of the recent Board meeting.

Susan Myers spoke with Dr.
Treadway and Sarah Zentner. The Board subcommittee
(Weed, Nardolillo, McMillan) seemed willing to ask Trustee Brunton to step down;
they asked for a letter from the Senate stating that the Senate’s resolutions
did not constitute ”formal” charges.

Motion: Letter to be an emergency
action item. Susan Myers will draft a letter and send it out to the Senate for
approval. (Klopping) Second (Tull)

Motion passed.

Motion: Letter should
indicate that the Senate’s Vote of No Confidence remains the official position
of the Senate, and emphasize that the resolutions made no formal legal charges.
(Tull) Second: (Loukianoff)

Motion Passed

2. Approval of Minutes

Minutes approved as corrected.

3. Center for
Innovation and Technology (Parziale)

The new Innovation and TechnologyCenter is located in 1407 A & B.

The Title III grant has funded
new technical equipment for the room.

Senators are asked to survey
constituents and make suggestions regarding use of the space. What teaching and learning activities would
the faculty like to see take place?

No classes will be scheduled in
the space. The intent is to equip the
room with the latest technology and make it available for meeting and training.

Amanda Wheeler (x. 7559) will
schedule room 1407.

4. Disabilities Awareness Week (Conde)

Ohlone’s first Disability
Awareness Week sponsored by DSP&S will take place the week of October
15-19. The week will feature speakers
and activities throughout the week. Senators
are asked to encourage constituents and students to attend activities. Faculty will receive flex credit for
attending sessions.

5. 2007-2008
academic calendar (Myers)

A proposal is needed from the Senate
regarding intercession classes. Jim
Wright suggested that the proposal should originate with the Faculty Senate and
then go to College Council so that the Council can determine the impact on the
entire college community. This needs to
be done soon; we need to decide by spring what classes should be offered
Intercession 2008. Ideally, the
intercession program should be promoted in the fall 2007 schedule.

The Senate proposal should
include guidelines and limitations regarding the types of courses that should
be offered, the number offered on and off campus, restriction of rooms,
etc. Senators are asked to collect input
from constituents. Other colleges have offered
intercession programs successfully. SCIU
and CSEA have some concerns, though most classes would not impact the unions.
(The intercession would create a new business session for the Admissions office;
labs would be impacted)

Senators should send the calendar
to constituents and ask who is interested in teaching what courses.

Senators should ask constituents
their preference regarding the scheduling of graduation 2008. Do we want to try scheduling graduation on
the Friday of finals week? This will be action item on next meeting’s agenda.

6. Restructuring
Athletics and PE (Wright)

The PE program has expanded to
include fitness, health, and wellness.

Proposed restructuring of
Athletics and PE:

1. Athletics

2. Kinesiology (athletic training) which transfers
directly to SJSU

3. Exercise Science/ Fitness/Wellness, fitness
center

Jim will work on moving Athletics
under Student Services; it now has a dedicated counselor (Kenn Waters)

7. Consultation on
Faculty Positions (Wright)

PE department is down in the
number of faculty positions; when the NewarkCenter opens, it will need a full
time wellness faculty position.
Currently it does not have dedicated faculty position for the fitness
center. The FitnessCenter at the Newark
campus is a key program at the new Center.

Proposal: not fill computer science position and use
that position for PE.

The CS department agrees that
there is not a compelling reason to fill the CS position. The proposal has the support of the CS
department and Dr. Treadway. This move
would not replace any existing faculty vacancies, which will be filled in the area
in which the vacancy exists.

Susan expressed concern about
creating a new position without going through the process of ranking new
faculty positions; the “Faculty Prioritization Plan” needs to be faculty
driven. However, Jim has asked Senate repeatedly to complete this process and
is frustrated that this hasn’t happened- doesn’t want to wait another 2 years
before he can make decisions.

The Prioritization Plan should be
reviewed and updated every year to keep it current.

This will appear as an action
item on the October 18 agenda. A date
will be set to handle the review process and rank positions this fall, perhaps
holding senate meetings with deans in a different setting and allowing more
time.

9. Reassigned Time (Tull)

Tabled.

10. Presidents
Report (Myers)

Victoria
is continuing to work on collecting dues.

Susan is still working on
updating plaques.

There are still empty seats on Senate.

Tonight the League of Women Voters
is holding a forum for Board candidates in the ChildDevelopmentCenter.

The College is looking at
returning tennis as a team sport at Ohlone, first as a club sport sponsored by
fundraising.

The State Board of Governors
voted unanimously to support changing minimum math and English requirements (equivalent
to transferable English 101A and intermediate algebra.

11. All other
Business

The next Board Meeting will be
held October 11 at 3:00 p.m. in the SmithCenter.